I now blog at blog.sigamany.com

A treat for for all Wodehouse fans, including me :)

28 Wodehouse works have been released by Project Gutenberg - a list of them can be found here.

This is so cool!

I am not a blogger.

This realisation kind of struck me as I was driving to work today and wondering why the hell I had not blogged for over a month. Being busy, not having the time, other things taking priority - all these were excuses and nothing else, I realised.

At the same time, I seem to enjoy posting stuff here every now and then - maybe it is the regularity that stifles me...

I am still wondering, while I continue to blog today.

This evening Vidya and I drive to Bangalore - Ramesh is also going with us. Maybe more stuff on that when I get back on Monday.

I redid my aquarium - now it has glowlight tetras, albino, green and peppered cories and juvenile firemouths. This ought to be interesting!

Right in the morning, M had a narrative:

Last night, it was raining. I went to the wine shop with my friends and had a beer. There was a group of men working in the MTC there. It looked like one of them was working in the office while the others were drivers. The man working in the office seemed to be giving the others a treat. There were five of them, and they bought a full. Once they had finished, the drivers were steady, but Office-Man was swaying. Yet, he did not want to go. He bought another half, and insisted that they have it right there. So, although two of the men tried to talk him out of it, he had his way and was drinking more.

At this time, another patron, who assured me that he had had only a cutting and a quarter, went up to Office-Man and asked him why he was drinking so much. Now, this was not a done thing - strangers usually minded their own business. So, I, unable to contain my curiosity, asked the questioner why he was questioning Office-Man. To that, the questioner came up with this: "You don't know about this man. Last week, when I was having a drink, this fellow came up to me and started advising me about drinking and its evils, and he kept at it till I could take it no longer and had to leave. That's why I'm questioning him now. At least I am not married and have no one depending on me. Even if I lie drunk by the roadside, or don't go home at night, no one will bother. But this man, he is married and has children. And he is advising me!"

After that, I had finished my drink and had to leave. When we were leaving, Office-Man's buddies were trying to get him to go home in an auto, while he was protesting loudly that he would drive his bike home, and that in all the police stations, from Teynampet to Mylapore, all the policemen were "our boys."

Got dpGallery to work with pn .750

Only hitch is, uploading pix is by ftp - painful :(

Narrated by a colleague.

A friend of my cousin, she's a Brahmin. Got married to a Muslim. She wears a burka now, just like all the other Muslim women. Her husband died a couple of months ago in a train accident. Poor thing, now her father-in-law is ill-treating her - doesn't allow her to go out. She has to come back straight home after work. She has two children too.

Barrister Joseph Attah, Esq.

Joseph Attah & Associates

Solicitors, Corporate & Property Consultants

Nigeria.


Dear Friend,



I hope this meets you in good health. My name is JosephAttah, Esq. a legal practitioner and Attorney to late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev who died in the plane crash of Yak-40 jetliner on March 9, 2000. You may follow the Link below to read about the Plane Crash my client lost his life:



http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml &

http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml



My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, a Russian

Contractor in my Country and a Russian big time Oil dealer and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance Company and he left behind a deposit of Twelve Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollar($12,200,000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here in Nigeria. Which is one of the main reasons it has been very important to locate his next of kin. I have employed every method to locate any of my clients extended relatives but this exercise has proved abortive.After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit his fortune. The board of directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money or forfeit the money to the bank as an abandoned Estate. The bankers had planned to invoke a clause in the property Act, to confiscate the funds after the expiration of a period given to me.



Despairing and at the point of desperation, I came across your name, while trying to locate documentation's regarding possible relatives of my client in his country of origin. Convinced that you may be able to act in locus for my late client as his next of kin, I therefore, decided to contact you with these facts before me because of the status quo. By virtue of my brief and my closeness to the deceased, I am very much aware of my client's financial standing and the bank account he operates here in my country.



I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper

to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client and the sole

beneficiary of his estate, so that you are paid the funds left in his bank

account, hence I contacted you. I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin; the bank needs only the facts as presented legally. The rest is between you and I and with my guide we can have the money paid into your account, once this is done we shall both share the funds. 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be for Expenses or Taxes as your Government may require,



I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to

back up our claim .All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any Breach of law. Please get in touch with me.



Best Regards,



Joseph Attah, Esq.


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Burn the darkness

Upgraded to Postnuke .750 - and discovered that it is impossible to run a gallery or picture module buglessly.

Waiting for someone to make at least one gallery mod work with .750.

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I found this here: http://www.cetindia.org/placement/placement.php3

The typo merely reinforces the ridiculous use of hyperbole that precedes it. A content writer with a thesaurus and little else, perhaps!